Week 2 is over for me. I’ve done raid on my toons and both have 1 piece of their new tier set.
This is similar to previous start of new seasons and expansions.
For anyone who cares about performing in the first few weeks to either consolidate a place in a new raid team or stay on the wave to push their IO feel incredibly underwhelmed by the current loot system.
Maybe you got lucky and got a token & tier piece but you then still have to send both your vault charges on hero track items. Another feels bad man.
It is also impossible the cadence you set by having this looting environment to keep up with the expectations of logs and gear and the rest. I don’t have time, nor the guild to run 16 of the same toon through splits because thats the level of RNG+ to get loot. In fact, all I have is one guild who doesn’t run splits at all. We will be going into week 3 praying the loot gods give us the right allocation of tokens so that we can all FINALLY get our 4 set and be able to meet the tuning requirements you set mythic because RTWF and their sweaty and entertaining efforts to play the game 16+ hours per day until the last mythic boss dies.
Maybe you can do us all a favour and change how people can access gear so that they don’t have to have 16 of the same toon to run splits to get perfect gear and us casuals that apparently should just be okay to wait until week 3 if we have zero loot luck (among other significant factors which might impact your ability to get loot) to finally get access to your tier set that can be ~30% increase in your damage, can just play they game we want to play (and pay for).
To clarify I don’t get an overwhelming sense of achievement, pride, euphoria, elitism or anything else positive when i obtain a new tier set. I sigh a pain of relief that i can finally play the end game content that I actually enjoy and that I wont have to throw myself into LFR or other Pug run so that someone else can yoink their 5th tier piece or other upgrade which stalls my gearing progress until the next reset.
What I am specifically asking for is a system whereby my efforts are adequately rewarded. Give me the ability to earn even more catalyst charges maybe another at 3k IO? maybe give me an ability to make one of my vault slots tier that I need or an ability to re-roll my vault if i get bad RNG and this ability is unlocked if I do 10 dungeons per week or fully clear the raid. IDK maybe they are terrible ideas, but their has to be a way that at the start of every season ‘unlucky’ players don’t have to just wait to get access to the gear which you tune the content around to become available to them.
Anyone that says waiting until the 3rd week of raid isn’t that bad. You are the wrong target audience for this post. IYKYK
Final comment, there are lots of threads that raise similar frustrations with the RNG nature of obtaining tier sets maybe we can fix this. Happy to help if you want.